Bullshit, huh? I think not.
This is a link to a copy of Wesley Snipes tax return from the court...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7jatus7gmgc5o46/SnipesReturn.pdf?dl=0
Note the repeated references to 26 CFR 1.861 found throughout his filing. His section 861 argument was wrong and he paid the price for it.
No. I won't continue. Trying to teach you people anything is futile and a waste of my time.
As a parting note... I recommend you open the image at the top of this post to get a glimpse of what the TRUTH looks like.
Most of the bullshit in this country is the result of apathy on the part of its citizens. If you don't know what the law says, you'll live with the government's boot on your neck.
"Persons dealing with the government are charged with knowing government statutes and regulations, and they assume the risk that government agents may exceed their authority and provide misinformation." Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Lavin v. Marsh, 644 f.2d 1378 (1981)
Those who take time to read and understand the law have our foot on the government's neck!
Never claimed sovereign anything. Never said Sixteenth Amendment wasn’t ratified. Never said income taxes were temporary.
And yes, the Sixteenth Amendment is irrelevant.
The Sixteenth Amendment was passed to close a loophole created by the case of Pollock v. Farmers Loan & Trust, United States Supreme Court, 158 U.S. 601, 1895.
Mr. Pollock argued that federal stock he had purchased was his personal property, and that taxing the federal dividends from that stock was equivalent to taxing personal property, which was an un-apportioned direct tax prohibited under Article I. The Supreme Court agreed, and struck those particular sections from the code.
The sole purpose of the Sixteenth Amendment was to close this loophole and restore to Congress the power to tax federal dividends, even if those federal dividends were derived from personal property - hence the “source derived” language in the amendment.
The statement above is not my interpretation. It’s fact. Fact supported by every authority on the matter.
Unfortunately, most people still believe the Sixteenth Amendment created the income tax we have today, or gave the federal government new taxing powers, eliminating the protection afforded by Article I of the Constitution. Nothing could be further from the truth.
No secret code words. Just the law. Try reading it sometime.
In parting, I'll leave you with some words of advice. You should not take them lightly:
"Persons dealing with the government are charged with knowing government statutes and regulations, and they assume the risk that government agents may exceed their authority and provide misinformation." Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Lavin v. Marsh, 644 f.2d 1378 (1981)
Because no unapportioned federal tax can be laid on general activities conducted as a matter of right or the revenues they produce (since a tax on such things would be a capitation or other direct tax, and therefore would require apportionment in accordance with the Constitution) all unapportioned federal taxes are necessarily on distinguishable events involving an exercise of federal privilege.
In other words. EXCISE taxes are those laid on the gainful exercise of federal privilege. These are known as excise taxable activities. Some you may be familiar with are the excise tax paid on a gallon of gas, on tires for your vehicle, on wines and spirits, etc..
For most workers, what they do for a living does not involve the exercise of federal privilege. Thus, they do NOT qualify as excise taxable activities.
Open the image attached to this post. The upper image is from the House Congressional Record - 78th Congress - First Session - March 27, 1943 - Volume 89 - Part 2
The section highlight in yellow is testimony given by then, Treasury Department legislative draftsman F. Morse Hubbard before Congress. His statement makes clear the federal income tax is an excise tax that applies only to objects (activities and privileges) suited to an excise. Working for a living in the common occupations of life is NOT one of them.
The U.S. Supreme Court agrees, having repeatedly ruled over the years that the federal income tax is an EXCISE, and not a direct tax, or a unapportioned direct tax as the IRS claims.
The bottom image is a tax refund check from the U.S. Treasury.
A tax return was filed, and after much scrutiny I’m sure, the IRS agreed that amounts withheld during the year were not earned in connection with an excise taxable activity. A refund check returning EVERY PENNY withheld from earnings during the year was issued - along with 980.99 in interest because the IRS held onto the money longer than allowed by law.
It pays to know the law!
Arrest me for what? The revenue laws are very clear. Those who participate in excise taxable activities are by law, required to pay income taxes on gains derived from the activity. Those who do NOT participate in excise taxable activities have no such legal obligation. Thus, all amounts withheld from earnings must be returned by the IRS in the way of a refund.
You do it by exposing the truth about the federal income tax.
Since World War II, our government has worked feverishly to keep the true nature of the federal income tax hidden from the citizens of this nation. Yet, there is a way to beat the government at its own game.
It starts with understanding how we got here. That means clearing your mind of all that you think you know about the federal income tax. The first being the idea that the Sixteenth Amendment created the income tax we know and loathe today. It did NOT. That’s nothing more than a lie planted by our government to keep the citizens eyes off the real prize — the TRUTH!!!
Think about it. If everyone believes the Sixteenth Amendment created the income tax, what reason would they have to look any closer?
If you want to take back control of the government, you need to arm yourself with knowledge of revenue law. Why? Because…
"Persons dealing with the government are charged with knowing government statutes and regulations, and they assume the risk that government agents may exceed their authority and provide misinformation." Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Lavin v. Marsh, 644 f.2d 1378 (1981)
The truth is that Congress wants to spend lots of your money, and though it can't seize money from you legally, it was perfectly willing to create a system of laws by which you are led to believe that it can, and about which you will have great difficulty discovering the truth. This has allowed the IRS to legally misapply the federal income tax with impunity. And through it all, the government’s position is simple --- “If citizens chooses not to read the law, we will gladly take their money.”
Sadly, history is littered with people whose lives have been destroyed by the federal government. It doesn’t have to be this way.
If you’re sick and tired of the government taking a good portion of your earnings every payday, your journey to seek the liberating truth starts here:
https://redice.tv/radio-3fourteen/cracking-the-code-the-truth-about-taxation-in-america
and here
Come join us! When enough people know the truth and we exercise that truth together, government will have no option but to change as it chokes on its own purse strings.
"Persons dealing with the government are charged with knowing government statutes and regulations, and they assume the risk that government agents may exceed their authority and provide misinformation." Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Lavin v. Marsh, 644 f.2d 1378 (1981)
When it comes to taxes, the federal government has taken full advantage of the peoples lack of knowledge regarding revenue law. And the government’s position is simple. If someone chooses not to read the law, they will gladly take that persons money.
If you want to learn the truth about the federal income tax and what you can legally do about it, you need to cleanse your mind of all that you think you know — like that nonsense about the 16th Amendment creating the income tax or an unapportioned direct tax. Those are myths and lies perpetrated by Auntie IRiS and the government in an effort to keep you from learning the real truth.
If you want to learn what you can legally do about it… the journey starts with understanding how we got to this point:
https://redice.tv/radio-3fourteen/cracking-the-code-the-truth-about-taxation-in-america
and here
"Persons dealing with the government are charged with knowing government statutes and regulations, and they assume the risk that government agents may exceed their authority and provide misinformation." Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Lavin v. Marsh, 644 f.2d 1378 (1981)
When it comes to taxes, the federal government has taken full advantage of the peoples lack of knowledge regarding revenue law. This has allowed the IRS to legally misapply the federal income tax with impunity.
If you want to learn what you can legally do about it… the journey starts with understanding how we got to this point:
https://redice.tv/radio-3fourteen/cracking-the-code-the-truth-about-taxation-in-america
Three important facts about the federal income tax government has kept hidden from the American People for more than a century:
- The federal income tax is an EXCISE.
- EXCISE taxes are taxes on the gainful exercise of federal privilege(s).
- Most workers do NOT earn their pay exercising any federal privilege(s).
"The income tax is, therefore, not a tax on income as such. It is an excise tax with respect to certain activities and privileges which is measured by reference to the income which they produce. The income is not the subject of the tax. It is the basis for determining the amount of tax." F. Morse Hubbard, Treasury Department legislative draftsman. House Congressional Record March 27th 1943, page 2580
Working for a living is NOT an excise taxable activity! The reason most Americans pay federal income taxes is simple. They are tricked into doing so.
Upon employment, your payer has you complete a Form W-4; a Withholding Agreement. They believe they have a legal obligation to do so under 26 U.S. Code §3402(a)(1)
Unknown to the worker and the payer, this paragraph does not apply to private sector workers. It only applies to an “employee” (as defined by law, not the dictionary) who is paid “wages” (as defined by law, not the dictionary), paid by an “employer” (as defined by law, not the dictionary).
26 U.S. Code §3402(a)(1) is a mandatory requirement. It applies ONLY to that which is enumerated! Thus, by law, 26 U.S. Code §3402(a)(1) does not and can not apply to a private sector worker.
Congress wants your money, but it can’t legally take it because the U.S. Constitution prohibits it. To legally work around the limits imposed by the Constitution, Congress created 26 U.S. Code §3402(p); the VOLUNTARY WITHHOLDING AGREEMENT. And more specifically, 26 U.S. Code §3402(p)(3); the “AUTHORITY FOR OTHER VOLUNTARY WITHHOLDING”.
Removing all of the superfluous wording from paragraph (p)(3)(B), the hideous truth is revealed:
“The Secretary is authorized to provide for withholding from any other type of payment if the person making and the person receiving such other type of payment agree to such withholding. For purposes of this chapter, other payments with respect to which such agreement is made shall be treated AS IF they were wages paid by an employer to an employee.”
By signing a W-4 you (the person) agreed to have your payer (the other person) treat your pay (the other type of payment) “AS IF” they were “wages” (as defined by law) paid by an “employer” (as defined by law) to an “employee” (as defined by law).
In other words. By signing a W-4 you volunteered to have your non-taxable private sector payments treated as federally connected “wage” payments paid to a government “employee” by a government “employer”, subject to the excise tax laws of the United States.
You are now in the system as a “taxpayer”. Once receipt of “wages” payments are reported to the IRS, you are legally obligated to pay income taxes.
Welcome to the Matrix!
Repealing the Sixteenth Amendment would accomplish nothing.
The 16th Amendment was passed to close a loophole created by the case of Pollock v. Farmers Loan & Trust, United States Supreme Court, 158 U.S. 601, 1895.
Mr. Pollock argued that federal stock he had purchased was his personal property, and that taxing the federal dividends from that stock was equivalent to taxing personal property, which was an unapportioned direct tax prohibited under Article I of the Constitution. The Supreme Court agreed, and struck those particular sections from the tax code.
The sole purpose of the amendment was to close this loophole and restore to Congress the power to tax federal dividends, even if those federal dividends were derived from personal property - hence the “source derived” language found in the amendment.
Contrary to internet lore, the amendment didn't create the income tax we know and loathe today, it didn't transform the income tax into a unapportioned direct tax, nor did it modify, repeal, revoke or affect the apportionment requirement for capitations and other direct taxes found in the Constitution. It simply prohibits the courts from using the overruled reasoning of the Pollock decision to shield otherwise excisable dividends and rents from the tax.
"The Supreme Court, in a decision written by Chief Justice White, first noted that the Sixteenth Amendment did not authorize any new type of tax, nor did it repeal or revoke the tax clauses of Article I of the Constitution, quoted above. Direct taxes were, notwithstanding the advent of the Sixteenth Amendment, still subject to the rule of apportionment..." Legislative Attorney of the American Law Division of the Library of Congress Howard M. Zaritsky in his 1979 Report No. 80-19A, entitled 'Some Constitutional Questions Regarding the Federal Income Tax Laws'.
The very suggestion of a non-apportioned direct tax is completely incoherent, because that would cause:
“...one provision of the Constitution [to] destroy another; that is, [it] would result in bringing the provisions of the Amendment [supposedly] exempting a direct tax from apportionment into irreconcilable conflict with the general requirement that all direct taxes be apportioned. ... This result, instead of simplifying the situation and making clear the limitations on the taxing power, which obviously the Amendment must have been intended to accomplish, would create radical and destructive changes in our constitutional system and multiply confusion." Brushaber v. Union Pacific R. Co., 240 U.S. 1 (1916)
There are three important facts about the Federal Income Tax the U.S. Gov't has tried to keep hidden from the American People for more than a century:
The income tax is an EXCISE.
EXCISE taxes are taxes on the gainful exercise of federal privilege(s).
Most workers do NOT earn their pay exercising any federal privilege(s).
The reason most Americans pay federal income taxes is simple. They are tricked into doing so.
Upon employment, your payer has you complete a Form W-4; a Withholding Agreement. They believe they have a legal obligation to do so in accordance with 26 U.S. Code §3402(a)(1)
Unknown to the worker and the payer, this paragraph does not apply to private sector workers. It only applies to an “employee” (as defined by law, not the dictionary) who is paid “wages” (as defined by law, not the dictionary), paid by an “employer” (as defined by law, not the dictionary).
26 U.S. Code §3402(a)(1) is a mandatory requirement. It applies ONLY to that which is enumerated! Thus, by law, 26 U.S. Code §3402(a)(1) does not and can not apply to a private sector worker.
Congress wants your money, but it can’t legally take it because of the U.S. Constitution. To legally work around the limits imposed by the Constitution, Congress created the VOLUNTARY WITHHOLDING AGREEMENT, 26 U.S. Code §3402(p); and more specifically, the “AUTHORITY FOR OTHER VOLUNTARY WITHHOLDING”, 26 U.S. Code §3402(p)(3).
Removing all of the superfluous wording from paragraph (p)(3)(B), the hideous truth is revealed:
“The Secretary is authorized to provide for withholding from any other type of payment if the person making and the person receiving such other type of payment agree to such withholding. For purposes of this chapter, other payments with respect to which such agreement is made shall be treated as if they were wages paid by an employer to an employee.”
By signing a W-4 you (the person) agreed to have your payer (the other person) treat your pay (the other type of payment) “AS IF” they were “wages” (as defined by law) paid by an “employer” (as defined by law) to an “employee” (as defined by law).
In other words. By signing a W-4 you volunteered to have your non-taxable private sector payments treated as federally connected “wage” payments paid to a government “employee” by a government “employer”, subject to the excise tax laws of the United States.
You are now in the system as a “taxpayer”. Once receipt of “wages” payments are reported to the IRS, you are legally obligated to pay income taxes on those “wage” payments.
Welcome to the Matrix!
26 USC 6331(a) states who is subject to levy via a mere Notice from the IRS. Anyone not enumerated in paragraph a. can only be levied via the normal adversarial route (a court proceeding). Years ago, the IRS co-opted banks and businesses to do what they are unable to do themselves --- levy/garnish a private-sector citizen via a mere Notice. Look at a copy of Form 668-W and you'll find the excerpt pertaining to Levy and Distraint starts with paragraph b.. IRS did this because they know most people are so scared they will never read the fine print and notice that paragraph a. is missing on the form. Paragraph a. states in no uncertain terms who is subject to an IRS Levy by way of a mere Notice. And you won't find private sector workers listed anywhere!
If you want to learn the truth about the federal income tax, listen to these:
https://redice.tv/radio-3fourteen/cracking-the-code-the-truth-about-taxation-in-america
and
Irwin Schiff claimed there was NO LAW the required him to pay taxes. He was incorrect and the court found him guilty as a result of his being incorrect.
The income tax is an EXCISE tax. It applies to ANYONE who partakes in an excise taxable activity that results in the receipt of 'income". The amount of tax is determined by the amount of "income" derived from the taxable activity.
The Withholding Agreement you made with your payer is a "Voluntary Withholding Agreement". Either of you can, at anytime, terminate the agreement.
The problem is that most payers are scared of Auntie IRiS, and they will continue to withhold, even if you terminate the agreement.
Once shown the truth, some employers have removed not only their workers, but themselves from withholding. As a matter of fact. After looking closely, some learn they aren't a trade or business subject to taxation and remove themselves from the system altogether.
My pleasure.